Michelin Guide: L'Ambroisie in Paris loses its three stars, chef Sébastien Bras also downgraded

The Michelin Guide announced its downgrades for 2026 to AFP on Tuesday. These downgrades include the loss of a star for Sébastien Bras, the chef who no longer wanted one, and the reduction from three to two stars of Paris's oldest three-Michelin-starred restaurant, L'Ambroisie.

Only one restaurant is dropping from three to two stars, the most closely watched of these downgrades: L'Ambroisie in Paris, located on the Place des Vosges, the capital's oldest three-Michelin-starred restaurant.

17 restaurants lose their single star

On the downgrade side of the two-star restaurants, Sébastien Bras' restaurant, Le Suquet in Aveyron, loses a star, the latest twist in a saga of almost ten years for this chef who has been constantly asking to be removed from the guide so as not to suffer the pressure anymore. Besides this unexpected Michelin star, Chabichou in Courchevel also loses its second star. In total, 17 restaurants across France will lose their single star in 2026, including Helen in Paris and La Mère Germaine in Châteauneuf-du-Pape (Vaucluse), and more than twenty Michelin-starred restaurants have closed or changed direction, including the iconic Dame de Pic and Yam'Tcha in Paris.